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Gaming teaches you to deal with whining, self centered idiots in a constructive way without just reaching out and striking them. So when your kid is too involved in his spontaneous after school game of tag to walk home (that was this morning), you don't just reach for the belt (and believe me, it was tempting, this isn't the first time we've been home wondering if someone has kidnapped and eaten our kid) instead you give him more chores (like throwing the party off the trail) and make him write down "I will come right home" a hundred times before he can play his new video games (like putting the twisting, mazelike dungeon in front of the treasure)

Every game can teach a lesson, it's just on how you want to learn it that's up to you.

Gamers are often childish... if not infantile. An opinion frequently held by Game Masters who have to deal with this behavior.

If you just said, "No we're not." in that whiny or indignent tone, you just proved my point... as you just responded like a child. Gamers frequently whine for experience points like children whine for candy in the supermarket aisles. Instead to dealing with it maturely, they wail about how things were unfair in the game... Though you may not agree with the specific, you might see my point.

I have to agree. I never thought about it until I read this but it is a perfect example of my life with my new daughter. I should have my wife read this, then maybe should would understand gaming more.

Neat. Having two kids myself I'm nodding continually while reading;)
Its one of the reasons I game with my kids. Sometimes the crossover from the game situation to their unkept bedroom and chores ..is not very gray :)

People that live in cities no longer have any contact with the gods. There was a pact between the gods, humans, and animals. We could talk to the gods and the trees were the witness' to the pact. When the trees started getting cut down to make cities the pact was broken by the destruction of the witness'. So now only those that live with nature can speak to the gods and/or animals. Some trees grow tall creating darkness that scares men and they are not able to go near them. If they could they could again speak to the gods.